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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 06/04/2026

#ARTEMIS II point of view for the next few hours as they go on their close by of the moon. Time in CEST (Europe/Berlin). Earth set at 00:40 and earth rise at 01:20 Sun eclipse at 02:30 (07.04.26) 🔭🧪

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 05/04/2026

#artemis II nearly there, slower now as the earth’s gravity keeps stubbornly holding them back. 🔭🚀🧪

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 18/02/2026

Sim, vinha dizer exatamente isso. Disse o troglodita do meio: “O senhor do meio acabou de dizer “hoje em dia não se pode chamar preto a um preto, cigano a um cigano; mas pode-se chamar mulher a um homem”

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 13/01/2026

RXJ0528+2838, a dead star creates a bow shock as it moves through space. Captured with MUSE on @eso.org VLT and alternates with an image from the DSS taken about 30 years ago. Credit: ESO/K. Iłkiewicz and S. Scaringi et al./DSS2. www.eso.org/public/news/... 🔭🧪

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 11/12/2025

In a few hours in some areas of the world, interstellar visitor 3I/Atlas is going to be occluded by the moon. Interesting unique (and challenging) shooting opportunity, astrophotographers out there? 🔭🧪

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 20/11/2025

It's an app we're currently developing for virtually exploring the ELT. We're planning to release it for free to educators next year and also as a video game on gaming platforms, at a later stage

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 20/11/2025

Assistant for the day. Working on the ELT model in Unreal Engine @eso.org 🧪🔭

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 13/11/2025

Unique shape of star’s explosion revealed just a day after detection @eso.org. Some background info on how I produced the image and illustration using @jangafx.bsky.social Embergen luiscalcada.com/supernova-ex... 🔭🧪

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 16/07/2025

Forged in fire. My cover for the latest @nature.com issue. www.eso.org/public/news/... ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al. 🔭 🧪 ☄️

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 03/07/2025

Double detonation: Zooming into Supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. New observations with @eso.org shows remains of star destroyed by pair of explosions. #astronomy 🔭 (ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger/VMC Survey/DSS2/P. Das et al. Background stars (Hubble): K. Noll et al.)

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 13/06/2025

How massive can black holes get? Our latest Chasing Starlight episode is out: youtu.be/_HSHxxOIZCE #astronomy @eso.org 🔭

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 28/04/2025

That place is incredible! Enjoy. I'd love to come back soon, too.

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 24/03/2025

Incredible moon rise behind the Extremely Large Telescope @eso.org A stunning video taken on 13 March by our colleague Juan Beltrán, who works at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, not far from the ELT. #astronomy

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 18/02/2025

3D scanning the mountain where @eso.org is building the biggest telescope in the world, the ELT, to import in UE5 @unrealengine.bsky.social game engine, for an interactive virtual tour—an exciting project I'm currently working on. #astronomy

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 28/01/2025

Shooting day. Chasing Starlight, with Suzanna Randall at the European Southern Observatory @eso.org Have you watched the show, #astronomy? youtu.be/BodtjPYFaP8

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 21/01/2025

Simulations for @eso.org WASP-127b giant Exoplanet created using #EmberGen @jasonkeyvfx.bsky.social #astronomy www.eso.org/public/news/...

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 21/01/2025

Extreme supersonic winds measured on planet outside our Solar System @eso.org Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b. Reaching speeds up to 33 000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured on a planet. #astronomy

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 02/12/2024

Webcams have been installed inside the dome of the #elt We can now follow the day to day construction of the world's biggest optical telescope #astronomy www.eso.org/public/outre...

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 24/11/2024

My artist’s reconstruction of the star WOH G64, the first star outside our galaxy to be imaged in close-up. It is located at a staggering distance of over 160 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. #astronomy #astro #astroviz

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 24/11/2024

First close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy (left). The new observations reveal a star puffing out gas and dust, in the last stages before it becomes a supernova. #astronomy #astro Right side, my reconstruction of the system. www.eso.org/public/news/...

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 30/11/2023

"Webb Study Reveals Rocky Planets Can Form in Extreme Environments" www.nasa.gov/missions/web... Happy to see one of my old illustrations for ESO being used for the latest NASA/ESA JWST press release. #astro #astronomy

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 30/11/2023

A disc around a young massive star has been observed in another galaxy for the first time (using VLT and ALMA). #astro #astronomy

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 29/11/2023

A couple of shots I took of (one of the 4 unit telescopes of) ESO's VLT firing its 4 lasers into the atmosphere. Such an incredible machine in a magical place. #astronomy #astro #astrophotography

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Luis Calçada @luiscalcada.com · 28/11/2023

This is Valle de la Luna, in the Chilean Atacama Desert, close to where the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is located. Photo by Petr Horálek #astronomy #astro

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